Joomla! is one of the best open source Content Management System. It is widely used for different types of websites. On the other hand, after HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, another widely used tool for web designers is Adobe Flash (previously known as Macromedia Flash). Although website design practices have been much improved for designing visually rich, interactive, and entertaining websites, Flash is still the best choice. This book shows you how to use Flash with Joomla! so that the power of these two combined can make your site an exceptional experience.
In this chapter we have briefly discussed why one should go for Joomla! and Flash together and what tools are required to do so. We have assumed that the readers of this book already have experience in Joomla! and Flash development. Therefore, we have just introduced some extra tools that will be useful for developing our Flash and Joomla!-based site. With this little introduction, in the next chapter, we move to building our site by adding Flash to the content of a Joomla! site.